Asteroid 2024 Rw12. Nasa’s asteroid watch dashboard has identified five asteroids set to make relatively close approaches to earth this month. Nasa used one telescope to transmit the radio waves, and a second one to receive them, resulting in images of 2024 mk that include not just the shape of the.

These are the final observations of the asteroid acquired by esa’s astronomers shortly before it entered earth’s shadow, around 37 minutes before impact,. It will make a close flyby earth at a distance of nearly 1,490,000 kilometres.